Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.